Servers

Software

Pick your poison.

It doesn’t matter if you have the ideal server configuration for your workload if it doesn’t have the operating systems, control panels, database applications, and utility software you need.

SoftLayer offers a comprehensive range of software options from industry leaders that are installed using each vendor’s best practices, and licensed and billed month-to-month with the rest of your solution.

Wide Selection

We support all leading open source and enterprise operating systems, utilities, and applications.

Best Practices

Installation, configuration, and updates are performed to ensure peak performance and security.

Virtualization

Add a layer of virtualization to your server with software from the industry leaders.

VMWare ESX and ESXi

Citrix Xenserver

Parallels Cloud Server

Microsoft Hyper-V

Security

Add security services to your server from the industry's most trusted names.

McAfee Total Protection

McAfee Anti-Virus

Microsoft Windows Firewall

McAfee Host Intrusion Protection

Nimsoft Monitoring

APF Software Firewall

Database

SQL or NoSQL database software can be installed during server deployment or at any time during the life of your server, ready for your configuration. Or, learn about our big data multi-server deployment solutions that simplify and streamline server and database configuration.

Microsoft SQL Server (2005, 2008, 2012, 2014)

MySQL

Cloudera Hadoop

MongoDB

Basho Riak

Control Panel

Install a control panel providing a GUI interface to streamline server administration.